It hasn't happened in 31 years, but the St Louis Blues could potentially have their first 100-point scorer in quite some time, thanks to the dynamic Robert Thomas possibly having a breakout year in 2025-26.
Thomas, the Blues' 26-year-old star center, leads St. Louis' top offensive line alongside LW Pavel Buchnevich and RW Jimmy Snuggured, a budding young superstar in his own right who helped the Blues make a return to the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 3 seasons. And although it ended dramatically against a divisional rival in Winnipeg, St Louis looks to have a carbon copy of last season, where they'll hopefully make a deeper playoff run this time around. With the trio of Thomas, Buchnevich, and Snuggerud on offense and their 2nd offensive line consisting of even more young talent like Dylan Holloway and Jordan Kyrou, plus captain Brayden Schenn, the Blues have one of, if not the most stacked, offenses in the entire NHL.
Thomas had 21 goals and 60 assists for 81 points in the 2023/24 season, his first after his 2022/23 campaign saw him participate in the All-Star Game for the first time in his young career. Thomas got to be an All-Star in his effectively native Toronto, as he's from Aurora, an hour north of the 4th-largest city in North America. 2022/23 saw Thomas notch a similar points total to last season, with 26 goals and 60 assists for 86 points. Also, last season, Thomas had a points per game average of 1.16, the 3rd consecutive season he's finished above a point per game. In order to get 100 points on the season, Thomas will have to reach 1.22 points per game, and he's clearly not too far off.
The sheer talent on the Blues' top two offensive lines is one reason why St Louis ranked 16th on the power play last season, posting a percentage of 22.1, and if you think that's low, the highest-ranked team on the power play was Winnipeg at 28%. The Blues were a little lower ranked on penalty kill at 23rd, but they still managed to get rid of 74 percent of penalties without being scored on. The Jets were 11th in that statistic, by earlier comparison. The last 100-point scorer for the Blues in franchise history was Brendan Shanahan in the 1993/94 campaign, where he totaled 52 goals and 50 assists for 102 points en route to his first of 8 All-Star Game appearances. Shanahan spent 4 seasons with the Blues, compiling 156 goals and 150 assists for 306 points in 277 career games wearing the Blue Note sweater.
The Blues also possess solid talent on their top defensive lines. Veteran Cam Fowler and Colton Parayko man the Blues' primary defensive pairing, followed by another veteran-youngster duo in Justin Faulk and Philip Broberg. It's also worth mentioning that since being dealt to St Louis from Edmonton, Broberg and Holloway have become standout defenders for the Blues, something they never quite achieved with the Oilers. And all of this is led by Blues head coach Jim Montgomery, who no doubt helped St. Louis break its postseason drought. The 56-year-old actually played a single season with the Blues back in that same 1993/94 season, making 67 games and logging a modest 6 goals and 14 assists, his highest offensive production in a short six-year NHL career with almost as many teams, including the Flyers, Stars, Sharks, and Canadiens.